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The Job Ladder: Transforming informal work and livelihoods in developing countries

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    The Polarized post-2015 Development Puzzle: The Poorest still Fall Behind
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    by Marikki Stocchetti April 2013

    23 April 2013 Marikki Stocchetti 2015 will mark a moment of truth for the international community as the era of the Millennium Development agenda...

    • Children
    • Millennium Development Goals
    • Poverty
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    Positioning the Climate Finance in the post-2015 Development Agenda
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    by Aziz Karimov June 2013

    24 June 2013 Aziz Karimov By the end of 2015, we will see a new global development agenda which will substitute the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs...

    • Climate change
    • Finance
    • Millennium Development Goals
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    Poverty and Inclusive Growth in the Light of the Quintile Income Statistic
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    by Sreenivasan Subramanian December 2013

    9 December 2013 S. Subramanian 1 Introduction It appears that the World Bank is planning to maintain and disseminate systematic information on a...

    • Economic growth
    • Poverty measurement
    • Income
    Blog
    Bringing in Public Economics – An Interview with Jukka Pirttilä
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    by Carl-Gustav Lindén March 2014

    29 March 2014 Quite a few prominent Finnish economists have been collaborating with UNU-WIDER throughout the years. One of them is Jukka Pirttilä, who...

    • Economic development
    • Research (Education, Higher)
    • Public goods
    Blog
    The Present Development Debate and Beyond
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    by Finn Tarp February 2013

    Finn Tarp The current global development agenda is centred on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), established at the turn of the Millennium. They...

    • Economic assistance and foreign aid
    • Economic development
    • Millennium Development Goals
    Blog
    Reorientating the Results Based Agenda: Interviews by Carl-Gustav Lindén
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    by Carl-Gustav Lindén March 2013

    21 March 2013 In foreign aid, results are the buzz word of the day; evaluation, monitoring, and quality control are the means of demonstrating to...

    • Economic assistance and foreign aid
    • Education
    • Health
    Blog
    Imperfect Data Increases Uncertainty
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    by Carl-Gustav Lindén May 2013

    9 May 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén The world is a complex place where risk and uncertainty are an everyday challenge. Decision makers at all levels say...

    • Climate change
    • Economic assistance and foreign aid
    • Information technology
    Blog
    Inclusive Growth in Africa
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    by Roger Williamson September 2013

    24 September 2013 Roger Williamson Another big weekend for UNU-WIDER. The stage was well set on Thursday 19 September for a consideration of...

    • Economic policy
    • Equality and inequality
    • Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
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    Jobs Drive Development: An interview with Martin Rama
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    by Carl-Gustav Lindén January 2013

    15 January 2013Martin Rama from The World bank discusses the process behind the World Development Report 2013 on jobs, which he directed.He emphasises...

    • Conflict management
    • Economic development
    • Equality and inequality
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    Regional Cooperation and Peace

    Part of Book The New Regionalism and the Future of Security and Development

    • Conflict management
    • Regional economics
    • Regional planning
    Working Paper
    Climate change and developing country interests

    We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that...

    • Climate change
    • Global mitigation
    • Developing countries
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    Multidimensional Poverty: Measurement and Implications: An Interview with James Foster
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    by Roger Williamson October 2013

    17 October 2013 James Foster describes the importance of moving beyond income poverty as a way of assessing 'who is poor?' and 'how poor?'...

    • Economic growth
    • Education
    • Poverty measurement
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    A New Agenda for a New World
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    by Gunilla Carlsson June 2013

    24 June 2013 Minister Gunilla Carlson Like every political agenda, the post-2015 agenda must be firmly based in a reality check. The current...

    • Economic development
    • Emigration and immigration
    • Free trade
    Blog
    Youth Employment: A Key Issue
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    by Carl-Gustav Lindén January 2013

    Economist Imed Drine recently left UNU-WIDER and headed with his family for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to take up a new position as a senior economist with...

    • Quantitative research methodology
    • Infrastructure (Economics)
    • Institutional economics
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    What Does it Mean to be in the Middle?: Mobility and Vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean
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    by Luis F. López-Calva January 2013

    Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva [1] The concept of social class and specifically middle class, has been widely discussed in sociology and other social...

    • Households
    • Human capital
    • Income distribution
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    Agricultural Policy in Africa: Understanding Decision-Making and Implementation
    by Danielle Resnick, Regina Birner January 2011

    Danielle Resnick and Regina Birner In recent years, there has been renewed emphasis on promoting agricultural production and food security in sub...

    • Agriculture
    • Agriculture and state
    • Food security
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